Granadaland Hangover Run - 28 December 2003

Peter E Moore

At the Slipway Inn

Above is a picture showing nine of the eighteen
starters, at the Slipway Inn on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in
rural West Lancashire. This was the half way (approx) stop on the
28 mile run. The two retirees dropped out early: Richard
Williams's Mobylette throwing a sulky fit because it thought
(correctly) that he had not lavished enough recent TLC upon it, and
Paul Adams optimistically started the run on a Winged Wheel that he had
bought a week previously, the machine not having run for 41
years. Perversely, it was the rear brake which seized-on after so
long a period of inactivity, but the motor was buzzing healthily.
Three cyclemotors completed the run, a Cyclemaster, a Mini-Motor, and a
Winged Wheel.

The machines shown appear to be: Raleigh (RM6?), New Hudson,
Cyclemaster, VéloSoleX, Mobylette, Quickly, Puch (a tasty
three-speed sports model), a Mobylette and another Mobylette.
Unfortunately, I do not have the list of runners and riders, so cannot
tell you whose machines they are!